1. Make sure that the stairs are wide. I have seen lots of houses with narrow stairs. Can be a real pain for moving some furniture items. This must be a way for builders to save some money.
2. Also, a large front door is nice so that you don't wrap your knuckles when moving big screen tv into house.
3. Can't remember if it has been mentioned, but get your entertainment wires such as satellite or cable wired in before the drywall goes on. Learned that HDTV dishes require 2 lines and most houses only have 1. Real pain to get installed after the fact.
4. Get natural gas line run to outside for future bbq hookup as well as power if you wanted to put in hottub in the future. Moved into my house in Jan and these are some of things that I didn't think about until after we moved in. May never use them, but at least it would be roughed in.
5. Go with the 2 storey so you don't have to worry about doing the basement right away.
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